Writing remains : new intersections of archaeology, literature and science / edited by Josie Gill, Catriona McKenzie and Emma Lightfoot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gill, Josie, editor.

McKenzie, Catriona J., editor.

Lightfoot, Emma, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Explorations in science and literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and literature.

Archaeology in literature.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 230 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

"Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary practice. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of archaeological methods in literature and literary criticism. Across the book's 10 chapters - ranging from Thomas Hardy and H.P. Lovecraft to Zadie Smith and Paul Beatty, from new genetic insights into prehistoric man and the deepening record of our changing human environment - scholars from across disciplines are brought into dialogue, making innovative connections to concepts, methodologies and practices of cultural understanding"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Genetics and human inheritance

1. New materialism, archaeogenetics and tracing the human / Jerome de Groot

2. Jack London and Before Adam: Ahead of his time, or a cautionary tale in the study of prehistoric hominins? / David Clinnick

pt. II Innovations in practice through collaborative projects

3. `Handle with care': Literature, archaeology, slavery / Emma Lightfoot

4. Creative facticity and `hyper-archaeology': The spatial and performative textualities of psychogeography / Spencer Jordan

pt. III Literature, archaeology and layering the past

5. Deciphering the city: Ancient Egypt in Victorian London and psychogeographical archaeology / Eleanor Dobson

6. From the Great Castle of the Hill to the Great Mound on the river: Imperialism and transatlantic archaeology in Thomas Hardy's `Ancient Earthworks' / Anna West

pt. IV Narrative archaeology and the narratives of archaeologists

7. Something more than imagination: Archaeology and fiction / Daniel P. van Helden

8. The death of the archaeologist: Imagining science, storytelling and self-understanding in contemporary archaeofiction / Anna Auguscik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Writing remains

ISBN:

9781350109469

1350109460

OCLC:

1179291415

Publisher Number:

99988403031